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What is your personal meaning for life /lit/?

>> No.5565544

>>5565543

To get dubs

>> No.5565553

>>5565544
wow nice dubs

>> No.5565554

>>5565544

Now I can die in peace.

>> No.5565555

>>5565544
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usfiAsWR4qU

>> No.5565556

>>5565543
My meaning comes from the mystic sphere, I sense in certain art and religious scripture and even in philosophy and some science the embodiment of a kind of being that's impossible to deny being as we are subjective consciousnesses experiencing reality, that shows me where to go in life if I only let it speak to me through its ambiguous tongues

>> No.5565559

Get money. Smoke trees.

>>5565544

Well done.

>> No.5565566

>>5565556
Boy, you sure think like a faggot.

>> No.5565574

Gain knowledge, meet other people, attain non-synthetic happiness (I.e not drugs and sex)

>> No.5565584

>>5565574

You consider sex synthetic happiness?

>> No.5565586

>>5565566
You're incapable of understanding me for two reasons, one modernity has stripped you of a mystic sensibility, and two you don't have the inductive reasoning skills to see the relations I've shown you.

>> No.5565604

>>5565574
>>5565584

No.

>Gain knowledge

I mean, I want intimate knowledge of the female form and how to make each other orgasm in a spiritual synchronicity. Simple.

>> No.5565605

>>5565584
Yes, this doesn't mean I avoid it. I suppose it might have been better to say non-primal happiness, more like a Socratesian conception of happiness.

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>>5565604
>I want intimate knowledge of the female form and how to make each other orgasm in a spiritual synchronicity.


This is the only knowledge worth attaining in this dimension...

>> No.5565622
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5565622

Be optimistic. Teach this thus leading others to Heaven. All the rest is bullshit.

>> No.5566503

>>5565543

realizing the inanity in being everything, i've decided to be everyone instead.

>> No.5566512

>>5565543
A cruel joke by ignorant pranksters.

>> No.5566516

>>5565622
>Teach this thus leading others to Heaven.

Shut up you babbling retard

>> No.5566520

>>5565622
i still don't understand this image..

>> No.5566973

To crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and to hear the lamentations of their women.

>> No.5566975

>>5565543
A really bad hangover for a night I don't remember

>> No.5566980

Mine, or yours? Or everyone's? Mine I make up as I go along. I wouldn't dare do any different for yours, otherwise you'd probably end up in a cattle ranch.

>> No.5567001

to one day get the best wife i possibly can and raise a child to the best of my abilities

right now life really doesn't have much meaning, i should probably work towards my ultimate goal of raising a superhuman by educating myself and making lots of money

>> No.5567009

>>5565543
Trying to make it to natural death without killing myself.

>> No.5567015

>>5565556
>could also be said for paranoid schizophrenics

>> No.5567020
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5567020

Obtain knowledge and assert my will. Only through reason and scientific speculation can we know God.

>> No.5567026

>>5565543
to teach peace to the conquered and see my seed spread across all the lands in His dominion.

>> No.5567039
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>>5565544

>> No.5567049

There is no personal meaning for life. Meaning is only generated when it becomes meaning for more than the individual, like in art or love.

>> No.5567065

I don't have one. I find life absurd.
Not going to kill myself because, though meaningless, my life is still fairly enjoyable.

>> No.5567846

>>5565543

I stare at the picture of the wizard and enter into a no mind infinite serenity state. Meaning is then post hoc administered through a process of strategic peace infusion and mutual aid creation.

>> No.5567851
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>> No.5567856

I want to rise so high that when I shit I won't miss anybody

>> No.5567863

42

>> No.5567874

>>5565543
Absorb all the knowledge I can until I'm wise enough to figure out my meaning of life.

>> No.5567901
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5567901

To warmly live without meaning.

>> No.5567912

>>5565543
being as much as unique as possible

>> No.5567926

>>5565543
To attain enlightenment, though I am not entirely certain what that means. ( I study a lot of physics and philosophy.)

I seem agree a lot with this anon >>5565556


>>5567863
I legitimately think I know what 42 refers to and means, would anyone like me to post my idea?

>> No.5567936

>>5567926
Stephen Fry already told the meaning of 42.

>> No.5567940

>>5567936
Fucking seriously?

>> No.5567945

>>5567940
Sorry I meant Douglas Adams himself did.

>The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought '42 will do'. I typed it out. End of story.

>> No.5567949

To come up with a completely new philosophy

>> No.5567956

>>5567945
I thought it came out later that he only said that so everyone would stop asking. That there is an answer for what he originally meant, but that was the easiest way to get out of it.

>> No.5567971

>>5567945
Bleh, my idea had to do with our current human chromosome being 44 chromosomes +2 sex chromosomes. There was a theory advanced by a biologist that earlier humans had 42 +2 chromosomes. Add into the mix Arthur Dent+a fleet of modern humans interbreeding with the protohumans on early earth and it seemed like a sound idea.

>> No.5568011

>>5565555
nice quads

>> No.5568021

>>5568011
nice dubs

>> No.5569219

>>5565544
>>5565555
>>5568011
holy shit

>> No.5569274
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5569274

>>5565544
THOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSE NUMBERS

>> No.5569277

>>5565544
Nice.

>> No.5569279

43

>> No.5569283

Nietzsche.

>> No.5569284
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>>5569277
HOLY SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT

>> No.5569285

>>5569283
This is horseshit.

>> No.5569286
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>>5565544
>>5565555
>>5569277
>>5568011

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>>5569286
Suck my cock

>> No.5569292

>>5569288
OH
FUCK

>> No.5569297

ayy nigga hand me some of these dubs

>> No.5569298
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>>5569288

>> No.5569299

>>5569297
nah

>> No.5569302
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5569302

>Cyclops, thou askest me of my glorious name, and I will tell it thee; and do thou give me a stranger's gift, even as thou didst promise. Noman is my name, Noman do they call me—my mother and my father, and all my comrades as well.

These are some of the first words uttered by the mortified Odysseus to the hideous, man-eating, terrifying Polyphemus.

The story of the Cyclops teaches us that a man begins his life without a name.
No matter whether you are baptized when young, or assigned a name by law, you are in fact nameless, a No-man, a nobody.

Your life will be full of struggle, but still you are commanded (by your own dignity) to face all obstacles in your way.
Even more, you are called upon to become an example to all, and mostly to your own self, by doing two things.
Draining life, by seeing your every day as an opportunity to develop (intellectually and emotionally) yourself as much as you can.
And fighting death, not by avoiding his skeletal grasp, but by fully embracing mortality as part of your existence.

And when you do that, when you manage to become your own hero, slay the beasts and nightmares your soul will bring before you, pursue truth and self-betterment, overcome the painful realizations and the brutal nature of reality, only then you will no longer be a nameless man.

You will be much more than a nobody.

The picture depicts the purpose of your life, the moment your heroic self has rightfully earned his name (and the moment your journey comes to an end).

>Cyclops, if any one of mortal men shall ask thee about the shameful blinding of thine eye, say that Odysseus, the sacker of cities, blinded it, he who is the son of Laertes, whose home is in Ithaca!

>> No.5569304

>>5569299
O SHIT
u fucking stingy ass nigga, gimme some

>> No.5569307

>>5569302
fuck off, this is a dubs thread

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>>5569299
>>5569288
>>5569277
literally how

>> No.5569316

Stunning thread lads

>> No.5569322
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5569322

>>5569307
No need to worry about that

>> No.5569323

>>5565543
To gain personal enlightenment and be at peace with my environment

>> No.5569331

>>5569322
i can't take it anymore

>> No.5569332

>>5569322
ooohhh

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>>5569322

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>>5569333
that's a good post...

3 you
3 you
3 you

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>>5569333

>> No.5569348

>>5569333
i knew this was going to happen but i couldn't post bc of time limit

>> No.5569355

To achieve the maximum amount of happiness, to work as little as possible while still keeping an enjoyable profession, and to sharpen both mind and body to the highest attainable level possible.

>> No.5569368

>>5569355
dubs confirm

>> No.5569369

>>5569355

Who needs happiness when you can have dubs?

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>>5565543
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYmyfksGA74

>> No.5570799

people who get dubs on lit are chodes

>> No.5572108

Checkum

>> No.5572149

Life is without reason, life needs no reason. Life needs no reason for the same way planets and rocks do not need reason, they simply are.

>> No.5572184

>>5572149
but planets and rocks lack self-reflection.
>I am a planet, what does it mean to be a planet?
never gonna happen

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5572727

>>5565544

>tfw no qt dubsfriend

>> No.5572769

>>5565543
To slander it.

I want to become a great death persuader in the footsteps of Hegesias.

>> No.5572818

To aspire after the ideal of the Ubermensch and commit myself to the transvaluation of all values.

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>>5572727
>2727
It all depends on how you try to see life.

>> No.5572834

>>5567956
What makes you think a fedora-tier atheistic SF writer would have access to the meaning of life?
>>5567971
What do chromosomes have to do with purpose?

>> No.5572841

>>5572184
Why should a self-reflective being need meaning?

>> No.5572848

>>5572149
The only good answer.

>> No.5572908

>>5570799
underrated poafdksaogda

>> No.5573499

>>5565544
underrated post

>> No.5573505

>>5573499
dubs

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>>5565544

>> No.5573536

>>5572848
But OP understands that. He's just asking what personally keeps you going.
Life, capital "L" doesn't, but that doesn't keep us from making up our own.

>>5573499
Back to /s2s/

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>>5573536

>> No.5574413

>>5570044
was that god tier bodied girl jerking off a strap-on on /gif/ really you, butters?

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>>5565544

>> No.5574957

the meaning of life is to die while a piece of you still lives

the meaning of life is to live forever

>> No.5574961

The possibility that I will lose my virginity.

>> No.5575423
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I don't really know. I just try to enjoy the little things.

I want to live a more honest life. I just want to be more genuine and truthful to myself. I don't want to deprive myself of things that I desire. I don't want to hurt others. I want to help people. I want to just overall be happy, and I want to make others happy too. And if I can do that, even in the smallest ways possible, then I shall be whole.

I hope I can start living my day to day life a little more like this. I need to stop wishing that had the courage to do it and to just do it.

>> No.5575443

The purpose and meaning of my life is to serve the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave Himself as a ransom for my life, and the lives of all people on this planet, so that we could be reconciled to God and receive eternal life.

>> No.5575456 [DELETED] 

>>5574413
Link

>> No.5575458
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God and Freedom

>> No.5575477

>>5570799

chode

>> No.5575479

>>5575477
lmao

>> No.5575485
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>>5570799
>>5575477

>> No.5575538
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5575538

learn more
create things
make friends
help people

it's pretty simple

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>>5567026
To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.

>> No.5576869

>And one day we will die, and our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea. But for now, we are young, let us lay in the sun and count every beautiful thing we can see.

I know I'm meme-quoting here, but I've never had my own personal meaning put so succinctly before.

>> No.5576877

>>5575830
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBGOQ7SsJrw

>> No.5576904

love

>> No.5576921

Meaning (for me) is both transient and transcendental.

>> No.5577245

>>5565543
Never stop improving mentally physically or spiritually/ethically.

>> No.5577253 [DELETED] 

Smoke dank weed, play soccer, fuck bitches, read and write, and, most importantly, to travel.

Zeeburg

>> No.5577263

>>5577253
what are places to travel to and what can i do there

please z i feel like traveling but i don't know where

>> No.5577274

>>5565543
Stop as many people reproducing as I can. I've done well so far.

>> No.5577282

>>5577274
what's your process?

>> No.5577289

>>5577253
>soccer

>> No.5577294 [DELETED] 

>>5577263
To each their own, anon-sama.

My favorite country that I've been to is Germany.
Europe is a must-- all of Western Europe
South America-- Peru, chile, Argentina, Uruguay.
East Asia- Japan, China, worst Korea
Canada-- only Vancouver
India
Africa-- Nigeria, Uganda, South Africa, Ghana, etc.

I have yet to go to Africa, Asia, and Vancouver.

Don't be a faggot when you travel; be sure to be a backpacker master race.

I'd recommend starting out with south America, Europe, or Vancouver.

Traveling is a life style: all the money I earn, I save for my next trip.

I wish I could be a nomad who would just write, read and smoke dank weed

>> No.5577300

>>5577294
Have you considered DUBlin m8?

>> No.5577304

>>5577282
Moral arguments based on empathy.

>> No.5577332

>>5577294
well fuck me i already live in germany
is this really as good as it gets?

when you travel, how do you spend a day? do you wander from town to town and through the countryside in search for inner harmony?

thanks for the recommendations, i'll a lot of time off next year and i thought about travelling, i will keep what you told me in mind

>> No.5577342 [DELETED] 

>>5577300
Nice gets, anon-sama

I'd like to go there one day

I could probably out drink the town drunk

Get

>> No.5577356

>>5577304
that works with normal socially-adjusted people?
is your next step to encourage people to an hero?

>> No.5577358 [DELETED] 

>>5577332
Go to Peru, anon-sama.
Great food, cute girls, lots to see, etc. best country in SA in my opinion.

I was in Mainz and Frankfurt. Smoked mad weed and played football while I was there. Foods good too, in Deutschland.

>> No.5577378

>>5577356
It works with intelligent people fairly often. Only if I can talk to them face-to-face, however. I don't know that I have ever convinced some not to reproduce over the internet, and certainly not on 4chan. If the situation means the cessation of their existence results in a reduction of harm I preach suicide, yes. I convinced a repeat offender rapist to kill himself.

>> No.5577417

>>5577358
thanks z, that sounds dope as hell

i'll do some more research and go far away next year

>> No.5578034

>>5565586
why

>> No.5578052

>>5567001
how old are you?

>> No.5578851

>>5567015

Try it some time, then see if you're so smug. Let it sink in for just a fucking second that this is the way reality presents itself to you and this is how you have to find meaning if you don't want to mentally meander down a hall of horrors your entire waking life.

>> No.5578893

>>5570044
if you were located on the eastern seaboard I'd exchange bjork concert tickets for your hand in marriage

>> No.5578900

>>5565543
Live. Can't really find much "reason" to living besides its inherit action. This is probably due to my crushing depression I had from ages 10-14 that I never grew out of but simply lost the suicidal impulses aspect of.

>> No.5578917

>>5577378

>Works with intelligent people.
>Doesn't work with unintelligent people.

Good job on further increasing the ratio of idiotic to intelligent people faggot.

Intelligent people SHOULD be the one's having children. Do you even into eugenics?

>> No.5578925

>>5578917

>one's

fml

>> No.5578938

Do drugs. Fuck women. Spend money on dumb shit. Bath in sin.

>> No.5579002

>>5572834
>What do chromosomes have to do with purpose?
Basically the 42 chromosome mark is when your beliefs start to create reality. This is why a supercomputer in another universe creates a world with peaceful proto humans with 42 chromosomes and has a ship flown into the world all as in attempt to understand the meaning of 42. Why Dent can fly.

>> No.5579008

>>5579002
wat

>> No.5579705
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I guess I just find this world too fascinating to ever leave it. I don't have any goals, I'm not actively trying to shape my world, I just love watching it.

>> No.5579806

To fight the Plague

>> No.5581099

>ITT: A bunch of "geniuses" are astounded by people getting dubs on one of the slowest moving boards on the site.

My life would have a lot more meaning if not for things like this.

>> No.5581105

>>5579705
Do you have any health issues?

>> No.5581122

>>5581105
The meaning of life is to die...
...and double dubs

>> No.5581123

>>5581122>>5581105

didn't mean to reply

>> No.5581126

>>5565614

/thread

>> No.5581129

>>5565543
>meaning of life

You might as well ask the scent of the color red. Would you be thinking about this at all if the media and culture didn't tell you to?

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>>5565543
Life is its own answer.

>> No.5581201

>>5565543
Only created things have a purpose. You already know what god had in mind and my parents wanted a son because their biological drive dictated it should be so.

>> No.5581203

Well I guess my only true purpose is to carry on my genes so reproducing

>> No.5581222

>>5565543
Anal.

>> No.5581281

I find purpose in believing there is a purpose. I don't need to know what it is, because I can't ever hope to understand it, it must be that great. I just believe that it, whatever it is exists, because there is no reason for anything existing or happening otherwise. It sounds like I'm just trying to fight a creeping sense of nihilism, but I really believe in it.

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>>5567945
Shiet, that's a relief. Because i thought 42=21*2 two die, or to die. That was too shallow.

>> No.5581309

>>5565543
Doritos

>> No.5581544

>>5565556
Ok, Martin.

>> No.5581767

>>5579705
>just love watching it
Yeah. That's the vector weed introduced me to. Willing to be an ultimate observer. To see the sunrise on another planet. To watch the spinning whirlwinds of galaxies. Or just to sit and watch the sun burning to a red giant same way as we watch fire burning down to ashes.

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5581867

The act of acquiring knowledge is a valid meaning in itself. Wouldn't you agree dear fiends?

>> No.5581875

>>5581222
To be anal, or to get anal? This is an important distinction? Clearly I'm ticking the first box with this post.

>> No.5581904

>>5565543
getting dubs

>> No.5581915

>>5565543
To leave a legacy behind

>> No.5581954

>>5581915
Define "legacy".

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>>5565544

>mfw those digits

>> No.5581991

>>5581961
I really hope that's not the real cover

>> No.5582021

>>5581961
lmao he looks like the dubs man

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5582069

>>5581122
double dubs

>> No.5582302

>>5582021
>HEY PAUL

>> No.5582310

>>5565543
transhumanism

become posthuman or die trying.

>> No.5582326

dubs

>> No.5582370

>>5579705
this 100x

observing truly is the sublime beauty

>> No.5582389
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5582389

>>5581122
Mah Imam.

>> No.5582396

>>5565543
To one day become Sam Harris' sex slave and be pounded by him for the rest of my life as he tells me how to live as an atheist and ignore every philosophical text ever written.

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>>5582396
I'm not gonna lie. Thats probably the most euphoric thing ever short of the bone standard "kill em' all" comments.

>> No.5582422

>>5569302
That was powerful

>> No.5582431

>>5582326
WOW NICE JOB

>> No.5582436

>>5581122
the dubs prophet has spoken

>> No.5582506

be honest. go wit the flow.

>> No.5582569

>>5581222
Can't spell banal without anal.

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>>5565544

>> No.5582677

>>5578917
No one should be reproducing

>> No.5583754

>>5582677

Why?

>> No.5583767

Creating until I shit out something worth appreciating

>> No.5583797

>>5583754
He's edgy and whiney.

>> No.5583832

>>5565544
Now you can die in peace